The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis was founded in 1907 by 39 of the city’s most influential women.This...
Twin Cities Area
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Germania Bank building is the only remaining brownstone “skyscraper” in St Paul. The eight...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
District #28 School in Ramsey
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Gates of Stonebridge
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Swinford Apartments
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
After one hundred and twenty years, the mystery of what happened to Clara Ober between the evening...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lost Highway 61
Moving Old Hibbing
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Taylor House In Le Sueur
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Endion School In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Finding The Past In Swatara
Red Wing Iron Works
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Le Sueur Theater
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Exploring Ottawa
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Welcome To Old Wadena
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hollywood Town Hall
Historic Wasioja
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
State Theater In Hutchinson
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Oxford Mill Ruin
Visiting Golden Gate
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Milford Monument
Welcome To Cobden
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
District 6 School in New Sweden
Old Brewery In Preston
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Meyer School In St Augusta
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Moderne New Ulm Library
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Historic Franconia
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Welcome To Dotson
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Ruins of Sawyer School
Exploring Sandstone
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Endion Depot In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Enter Marlon Brando
Little Falls Depot
The Old School In Wolverton
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Little Marais Inn
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Green Lake Mounds
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hanover Bridge
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Welcome to Hanska
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Jordan Brewery Complex
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Almelund Creamery
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The End of the Line in Currie
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Florence Town Hall
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...

